Regulation 7 Repayment of loan etc. to a local authorityI1

For the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 1 (capital finance etc), the sums referred to in paragraph (2), paid on or after 1st April 2004, shall be treated as capital receipts.

Subject to F1paragraphs (3) and (4), the sums referred to for the purposes of paragraph (1) are sums paid to a local authority as repayment of any loan, grant or other financial assistance given by the local authority for such a purpose that, if the giving of that financial assistance had been expenditure incurred at the time of the repayment, it would have constituted capital expenditure^f1.

Where the financial assistance referred to in paragraph (2) is a loan given by a parish council or charter trustees, any sums paid to the local authority as repayment of that loan shall not be treated as capital receipts.

A sum paid to a local authority to redeem a bond on its maturity or for the purchase of a bond does not constitute repayment of a loan or other financial assistance.